Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 5th Apr 2008 22:40 UTC
"Intel's next generation laptop platform, code named Montevina, has a nice feature that remains quite unheraleded, Displayport. Not only does it allow you to drive an external DP monitor, it uses it internally." My take: So let me get this straight. We are finally leaving the days behind where TVs were TVs and computer monitors were computer monitors, entering a brave new world where a TV can be a computer monitor and vice versa, all thanks to DVI/HDMI - and now we're getting Displayport on computers, recreating the wretched OR situation of yore? If I had any hair, I'd be pulling it out right now.
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2007-02-17
DisplayPort is intended to be used for TVs, too. It supports 1080p with 15-metre cables (more for fiber-optics cables). It's being seen in computers and monitors first, but that was the same with DVI/HDMI, too. Yes, many of the DisplayPort benefits are only really useful to PCs and monitors (I don't expect TV resolutions to jump beyond 1080p any time soon - there's no point to even having 1080p for most consumers), but those benefits are stuff we actually can use - HDMI is never going to be able to drive high-DPI monitors, for example, and I'm personally looking forward to getting my hands on something closer to 200 DPI than 100.